Gabriel N. Camargo-Toledo

“The way to cope with the future is to create it. (Ilya Prigogine)”

About me

I’m a political scientist and data geek with knowledge in survey research and design, statistics, econometrics, and statistical software development. I worked as a Researcher for a survey start-up in Colombia and have several years of experience doing social research, particularly surveys, in different settings. I enjoy building things that make doing research easier.

I also love teaching. I have taught different topics, to different ages, from languages to kids as small as 8, to high school social studies and undergraduate and graduate level quantitative methods and political science classes.

You can download my resume here or my cv here

This site is still a work in progress.

Publicly available software and research

In my role a Senior Researcher for Sensata UX Research I developed a software suite that allowed for the quick and consistent data cleaning and analysis of the survey data collected using Sensata’s proprietary platform. It was developed using R statistical language. This included two different packages, SensataDataProg and SensataDataAnalysis, both available on Github.

We also conducted a study on affective polarization among the private corporate sector and civil society in Latin America. This was funded by Fundación Sura. The goal of the project is to identify what separates and divides these two groups on terms of their affective views of each other and their ideological positions. The project is called Tejiendo puentes. You can listen to a podcast based on this study here

Publications

Book chapters

  • Camargo Toledo, Gabriel N. & Ortega Gómez, Bibiana Astrid (2022) “La ley de cuotas en las elecciones nacionales de Colombia del 2018” in En reconfiguración permanente. Partidos y elecciones nacionales y subnacionales en Colombia, 2018-2019 Edited by Felipe Botero, Bibiana Ortega Gómez, Juan Federico Pino Uribe, and Laura Wills-Otero.

  • Ortega Gómez, Bibiana Astrid & Camargo Toledo, Gabriel N. (2015) “Ley de cuotas en Colombia: Elecciones al Congreso de la República 2014-2018.” in Elecciones en Colombia, 2014. ¿Representaciones Fragmentadas? Edited by Freddy Barrero, and Margarita Batlle.

  • Ortega Gómez, Bibiana Astrid & Camargo Toledo, Gabriel N. “La Nueva Ley de Cuotas en Colombia. El Caso de las Asambleas Departamentales, 2007-2011.” in Política y Territoria. Análisis de la Elecciones Subnacionales en Colombia, 2011 Edited by Laura Wills Otero y Margarita Batlle.

Other publications

  • Araos, Ana María; Bohóquez, Maria FernandaM Camargo-Toledo, Gabriel N; del Portillo, Marcela & Rodríguez, Juan Sebastian. “Entre empresarios y líderes sociales. Afectos, ideología y polarización en Colombia México, Argentina y Brasil”, 2022, Sensata UX Research (Available here)

  • Warner, Zach. & Camargo-Toledo, Gabriel N. “How Does LAPOP Calculate Response Rates?”, 2019, Methodological Note 5, LAPOP (Available here)

  • Camargo Toledo, Gabriel N. & Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos. “Familias en Acción y Preferencias Políticas. Colombia 2010.”, Apuntes de cultura política 1 (Available here)

Education

  • MA Political Science. Vanderbilt University (2019)
  • BA Political Science. Universidad de los Andes (2011)

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